Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-03
LOCAL BREyITIEs.
The river is up to s feet.

| Strong & Williamson are getting the
ground ready near the depot to plant their
| nursery trees this winter.
| The iron rail- for one mile of the electric
street railway has been purchased, and will
be on the ground the 1st of January.
A social dance will be given by Leland
Stanford Camp, No. IL, Sons of Veterans, at
Turner Hall, on Monday evening next.
Chief Dillman says he will stand no
more foolishness. The police force must
tend to business or off comes their heads
The Turks camping on the peninsula on
China slough are now busily engaged in
making carts for their transportation this
winter.
Those who fail to pay their taxes before
the 18th instant will find their names ON
the delinquent list, which means an addi-
ton of costs.
Willie Peterson, the boy who ran away
from his home at Twentieth and o streets,
was brought down from Lodi and returned
home yesterday.
The Governor has designated Charles
Edgar Mills a Commissioner of Deeds for
California. 10 reside in New York CITY,
and I. f. Parish, to reside at Phoenix.
Arizona.
a K-street market firm places saw-dust
on the sidewalk on rainy days. This is
capital idea, as it keeps one from slipping.
and allows no mud to accumulate on the
sidewalk.
A Misunderstanding Chinaman was
brought 10 the police station yesterday and
he was told by the Chief to get OUT of
town. The last seen of him he was on the
Marysville train.
The argument in the Moore bridge burr
ing case was completed yesterday after
noon and the case given to the jury. After
being out an hour and hall verdict of
not guilty was brought in.
The misprint of figure in the published
list of marriage licenses issued by the
County Clerk during November made the
age of Leonard Baum to be so wears,
whereas it should have read 80.
Tomorrow evening Rev. w. C. Merrill
will give another Of his popular Bible lee
lures at the Congregational Church. Subject:
The Patriarch Chief and the Weather
King; Honesty Better than Policy
Notaries Public were yesterday appointed
as follows : H. E. Diggles, Montague, Sis
klyou county; John w. Green, Los An
geles; G. w. Head Ukiah; +. E. Baker,
Woodland Robert Rankin, Sssons, Siski-
you county.
u SOAClClC VAIN, Will STdilllt
is to be laid in front of the RECORD UNION
office. The walk will be 60 feet in length.
Forty feet of the same kind of walk is now
being laid in front of A. J. Senatz's prop
erty, adjoining.
The average Signal Service temperature
yesterday was 500, being 10 cooler than the
normal temperature for that day The
highest and lowest temperature was $50 and
42', with gentle to fresh south erly winds,
clear and pleasant weather.
The Chief of Police of this CITY went to
Roseville yesterday to testify in the case of
Higgins, the man who was arrested on
suspicion OF being the murderer of Hines,
at Rosevllle. The case will be tried in
Justice Brandstetter's Court, of that town.
Mayor Gregory is down on dudes. He
says there are some of them on the police
force. He has issued an order that the
said dudes must dispense with their canes,
give up their cigarettes, quit MASKING the
'chippies," and doff their dude suits for
those of cop.
Chief Dillman has made the following
details for Mondays election. The officers
are to enforce the election laws, and arrest
anyone who creates disturbance Officer
Franks, Third and ] I; Rider Third and X
Mclaughlin, Ninth and j Lowell, Twelfth
zee, Seventeenth and n.
Last evening Chief of Police Dillman re-
ceived a dispatch from Marysville stating
that two men we're there selling silk hand
kerchiefs. They were held awaiting his
arrival. He went up last evening to invest
lgate the matter, thinking perhaps it is the
property stolen few nights since from the
store of G. P. Nathan in this city.
The AmaGor and Calaveras District Agri
cultural Society, after securing grounds
and buildings, making one of the best
mile tracks in the State, and the holding
OF most successful fair, find themselves
less than 81 900 in debt. 1t can be said of
this district that it has Board Of superior
Directors, all thorough business men, and
those who know no such word as fail
Yesterday Conductor Calderwood, of the
California and Oregon Railroad, brought to
the city from Ben True's orange orchard at
Chico a small branch containing ten
oranges of the Baldin Seeding variety
The smallest orange measured three and
one-half inches in diameter. The tree
from which these were taken is about six
years old, and the oranges ripened theee
weeks ago.
Early yesterday morning fire was dis
covered in the grocery store of E. NJ. Judge,
at Twelfth and q streets. The fire caught
beneath The counter, and is supposed to
have been the result of carelessly leaving
lot of matches there. No. Two's engine
company responded to still alarm and
50 doused the glim." Damage about $3.50,
fully covered by insurance in the German
American Company.
Some time since F. S. Hall, prisoner in
the County Jail, escaped, but was immedi-
ately captured. AT the time he was under
sentence of $50 days. Yesterday his time
expired, and on a warrant sworn to BY
Deputy Sheriff Bennett, he was arrested by
Constable Chambers and taken before
Judge Post and charged with jail-breaking
To this he pleaded guilty, and was SEN
fenced to thirty days additional imprison-
ment.
People complain that the police force is
poor one. The Police Commissioners them
selves refer to them as "lot of dudes.
The salary is 800 per month, and in this
city are hundreds of good, honest and hon
| orable men, men above suspicion, men who
would shirk no responsibility, men who
| are temperate, and who would be glad to
| have those positions Is it not about time
| for the Commissioners to turn the rascals
| out ?"
Yesterday afternoon the case of Card
well VS.. The County of Sacramento came
| up III hIlASlIOilS SOuIl. uSSlTeS
| to compel the county to show cause why
| draw should not be placed in the new
| bridge across the American river at Twelfth
| street. The matter was partly considered
and further hearing will be had this after
noon. District Attorney Bruner and Beatty
d benson and Davis & Hill, of Oakland,
represent the defense. Taylor & Holl ap-
lear for the complainant.
SUPPOSED INsANE.-About a week ago a
man by the name of Jacob SouerbIunn
came to the police station, and complained
that some one was following him for the
purpose of killing him. He came up by
the southern route, and said he was from
Buffalo, New York. He was allowed to
stroll about in the Jail yard during the day,
but always wanted himself locked up at
night. He was given money by the Chief
| of Police yesterday, and sent back by the
| central route to his home. He says he is a
flour merchant and has a family. His
mind is apparently clear, with the excep-
ton of the above thought.
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